Honour / Family Flashcards
Romeo is forever in debt to his enemy for bringing him his love, Juliet. A1.5
“My life is my foe’s debt”
Romeo to Tybalt A3.1
And so, good Capulet – which name I tender/As dearly as my own – be satisfied.”
Juliet Balcony scene to Romeo
A2.2
“’Tis but thy name that is mine enemy. Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.”
Friar Lawrence to Romeo
A2.3
“For this alliance may so happy prove,
To turn your households’ rancour to pure love.”
Tybalt says at party that killing Romeo would not be a sin but a matter of family honour A1.5
“Now by the stock and honour of my kin
To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.”
Lord Capulate
“And you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend
And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets.”